Gosh, that you can read my Freepername and think you instantly know my view of reality is impressive. That you think the TSA patting down an old lady is a positive after the metal detector failed to detect anything is not.
The TSA doesn't do anything for us but unionize previously private workers. It will not prevent another 9/11 because there will not be another 9/11, since the passengers won't allow it. It serves only to annoy people who aren't a danger and studiously ignore the people most likely to be one for fear of being called racists.
Congratulations on defending these worthless p.r. lackeys for doing 'their job'--making sheep feel secure and making sure we don't spend money on a system that would protect us from real danger to our airlines and country. A nationwide El Al-style passenger profiling system. Real border control. Verifying student and tourist visa holders.
Any one of these things would be worth bothering with financially. Instead, we subsidize something worthless like fifteen union dorks (goons evidently being a PC problem with you) prancing around telling seniors to take their shoes off and raise their arms.
And by the way, you think my slant on reality is peculiar, wait until another terrorist fires up a nuke inside the U.S. because the federal government was too busy fondling old ladies for p.r. purposes instead of performing its Constitutional duty of defending the ports and borders of this nation. My slant on reality won't be so 'peculiar' then.